3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Beautiful dark red colour with thin white head. Aroma and flavor are both sweet and very cherry. Only in small doses.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Dark red, very tart. Almost sour. Great with dessert. Sour and intense. Almost like a cherry soda only more intense.
3.9 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Deep ruby pour with dissapating pinkish head. Aroma moderately sweet, with cherry pie smell. Flavor impressively intense, with a concentrated sweet ripe cherry taste. Quickly becomes quite sour, with a sweet/sour aftertaste and a very long finish. Very good dessert beer with a very appealing sweet/sour flavor.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Dark red beer with a red head. A distinct aroma of cherries with a tart cherry taste amd plenty a carbonation.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Reddish pour with red/white head. Nose of cherry with some flowering bud nose. Flavor is somewhat sour at first that mellows out to sweet cherry flavor. NIce bubble texture and finish.
3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Poured from a 12 oz bottle to a pilsner glass. Aroma is mostly sweet cherry, with a light bread twist. The head is creamy, pink in color, and fairly thick, diminishing to thin but sustained. Color is deep red with some brown observable. Clarity is clear. The beer is filtered so no yeast is visible. Texture is light, but slightly syrupy. Flavor proceeds from sour to very sweet to sour aftertaste. The cherry flavor doesn’t last long but the sourness sure does. I prefer fruit lambics to be musty or tart, not so sweet. Hence, I usually enjoy only two or three bottles of this beer per year.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle. (Taste comparison with Hanssens Oude Kriek.) I first tasted the Hanssens which left a really sour taste in my mouth and caused me to instantly become parched. So, I thought I’d quench my thirst with some cherry soda. I cracked this open and poured it. It pours a nice cherry red with a fizzy pink head. I took a big whiff and sensed some maraschino cherries. Oh the sweet artificial medicinal aroma of maraschino cherries. Even better, it tasted of artificial and medicinal cherries. YUM! And a thirst quencher! Oh wait, this isn’t soda?
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 18/20
Bottle-This is not the typical style of beer I go for, but I have always wanted to try a lambic. I’m glad I did! This beer has real personality. A nice frothy pinkish head, with good lacing. The aroma is a sweet cheery with a slight hint of malt. A nice sweet cherry flavor with a wine like finish. Kind of a watery body to it, but I can let that go. Overall a very nice beer. Very refreshing.
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